How sensitive is your 6 year old re films?

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DSD gets scared very easily watching films. She watched part of Peter rabbit a few months ago and she shouted and screamed the place down as "it's too scary". This afternoon she asked to watch How to Train your Dragon but has spent about half the film stomping her feet and saying she's scared.

How sensitive is your 6 year old when it comes to watching films? Do they get scared very easily? I don't know any other kids so don't know what's normal at this age.

Oh bless her! Some children are just funny about films, DD's (same age as your DSD)) best friend is like that we couldn't watch minions while he was over

My DD is ok as long as it's PG or below, she has quite a strong stomach in general though. If it helps OP someone on MN once confessed that their 14yo found a Muppets Christmas Carol too scary

When mine was 6 he watched Jurassic Park and all the Harry Potter films. Understood not real therefore didn’t scare him. But if you put a vet programme on with injured animal he would yell the house down.

My 7 year old is usually ok. He watches most films PG and below including first 2 harry potter but is very sensitive when it come to animals in danger/dying like bambi's mum and nemo's mum ect

DS2 is six and sometimes surprises me with what scares him and what doesn't. He'll watch PG films with my 13yo happily and not be scared of most things. But some cartoons and cartoon movies scare him a lot. For example, he was fine with the Peter Rabbit film but can't watch the cartoon TV series as it's too scary! Maybe cartoons for little kids are written to tie in to smaller kids' fears in a way that things for slightly older kids aren't? That's my only explanation, no idea if it's true.

Not at all.

We held off our six and nine year olds watching Avengers Infinity War and watched it ourselves first - they were all unmoved.

Obviously raising three little psychopaths

My 5 year old won’t watch any Peter Rabbit and was scared at The Lion King yesterday. She tolerates the scary bits in Beauty and the Beast as she’s seen it so many times, but is still not happy about it. If one of her younger brothers is around though she’ll go protective and tell them it’s just a story and it’ll be ok. So she gets the idea but still sensitive, which fits with her character as she’s always been cautious.

My six year old DS is pretty hardy when it comes to dinosaurs - so Walking with Dinosaurs, Jurassic Park and sequels - and is generally fine with most things.

But one thing really upsets him and that parents losing their children and vice versa. So he literally had nightmares about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because of the naughty children being taken away, and he was incredibly upset by Megamind because there was something to do with a child being taken away from his parents. I haven’t actually seen Megamind and had to post on here because DS was inconsolable and I only had tiny bits of info to go on go figure out what was upsetting him.

So he’s super sensitive in that way but loves monsters, dinosaurs, dragons, creepy scary ghostie things, and Hilda on Netflix which is - frankly - brilliant but very odd.

Funny, the little things that take hold in their little heads.

Our son is a lot like this - and used to immediately switch the television off he became scared. However we seem to have had a breakthrough this Christmas (he was 7 in the autumn) as he's asked to watch a few films and we've had the first Pirates of the Caribbean and the first two Harry Potters (he's read the first two books, and got the Hogwarts Express Lego for Christmas) amongst other things. I think it is fairly normal for some children to feel this way, but not worth pushing as it is no fun for anyone watching a film with a child who is on edge.

DS7 isn't sensitive at all, and has begun to watch stuff that DS13 wouldn't have watched at that age (things like the later HP films).

It's quite a normal thing and I don't think I'd push her to watch more challenging stuff yet, just let her choose.

My 8yr old son is very nervous of films. Peter Rabbit was ok, Paddington was a little scary, many Disney films are complete no-go. He's very sensitive to even extremely mild peril. Many of his friends have watched the marvel films, star wars etc but he wouldn't cope.

Ds2 on the other hand, bombproof. At nearly 6 he Loves all the superhero stuff and isn't fazed by much.

Some children just don't like it.

My 6 year old won’t watch certain things and goes out the room with bits he doesn’t like. He won’t watch the BFG as he doesn’t like the children being eaten. Same with Trolls. There are other Roald Dahl films/books he won’t watch that involve parents etc being eaten/squashed etc.

He’s never watched Jurassic park and there is one part of Peter Rabbit he doesn’t like.

Thanks all we're definitely not trying to push her at all. We turned off Peter rabbit. How to Train your Dragon we asked if she wanted it to be switched off and she said no. I think at the moment she's struggling with what's real and what's not real

• especially in this film when we say Vikings were real but dragons are not. It's a difficult concept.